In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations
There is a certain patina to the squabbling, domestic scenes of English filmmaker Mike Leigh, whose kitchen-sink dramas and sympathetic comedies have both hoisted and catechized the family unit for nearly six decades.
“It’s a bit of a love fest with the three of us,” adds Jean-Baptiste in the same conversation. “We work quite seamlessly and slot back into a particular way of being.” “There is nothing as full-bodied, creative, and terrifying as working on a Mike Leigh project,” says Jean-Baptiste. “You get to use all of your imagination in a way that’s not usually required.”
“It’s part of the job of the artist to depict the world in all its details,” he explains. “When working with the actors in, who come from a Caribbean-British background, they simply know things I don’t know. This is not a problem, difficulty, or issue.”
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